Author Topic: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string (Read 4499 times)

Giacomo Pigani · « **on:** December 03, 2015, 04:47:49 am »

Let's say that in a normal Ti-Basic program i create a string like this:

"Lorem ipsum dolor"->Str1
And then I have and Axe program I made to display text.

To display I do something like this (oversimplified example)
I like it this way so I can do some checks on A, reduce pixels from one letter to another and so on...

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{S+C}→A
while A≠0
Text(J,I,°A)
{S+C}→A
End

If I take the variable like this, only uppercase letter work (I think it has something to with 1 byte and 2 bytes tokens)

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"Str1"→Str1
GetCalc(Str1)→S

However, directly assigning a string in Axe works (I read somewhere that all letters use 1 byte in axe)

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"Lorem ipsum dolor"->S

I found this question which seems linked to my problem, but I'm not entirely sure and it also got no answers.
Here Runer112, says "TI Program Editor parses these as these special tokens and not lowercase letters. Due to this, they turn into garbage when parsed inside strings by Axe".
https://www.omnimaga.org/the-axe-parser-project/features-wishlist/msg132719/?topicseen#msg132719

Maybe I'll take a look at TokenIde to see if something can be done. Otherwise I though the Copy function could have been of help. Do you know any solutions?

c4ooo · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2015, 08:37:03 am »

It is bit hard to understand what you are trying to say, but i will try to help you.
When you do "Mare Nostrum"->Str1, it stores the lowercase letters as two byte tokens.
Axe, on the other hand, stores the strings directly as a bunch of one-byte chars, so that instead of being a token, a lowercase letter is just a [one byte] char. So in axe "Test" will be converted to "54(char-T) 65(char-e) 73(char-s) 74(char-t) 00"; but in tibasic "Test" will be stored as "54(char-T) XX XX(token-e) XX XX(token-s) XX XX(token-t) 00". ("XX" means i dont know that particular byte. Inside the "()" is the value of the hex number. The "00" is the terminating char, telling the text routines to stop printing the text)
If you render the string as a set of tokens, however, it will render correctly.

I cant formulate my thought too well, but i hope you understand.

Xeda112358 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2015, 02:29:38 pm »

The TI-OS strings uses tokens, not ASCII. Meanwhile, Axe strings use ASCII. The lowercase tokens are 2-byte tokens starting with $BB, and the second byte starts with 'a' = $B0, but $BB is skipped. In ASCII, 'a'=61h. Putting this confusing mess together, we need to convert $BBB0 -> $61, and so on. I think the following code will work, but only for uppercase and lowercase letters:

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;;Assume S points to the OS String data, C is the size of the string

0→I→J
While C
{S}→A
If A=187
{S+1→S}-$4F→A
If A>106
A-1→A
End
End
Text(J,I,°A)
I+1 and 16→I
If I=0
J+1 and 8→J
End
S+1→S
C-1→C
End

Giacomo Pigani · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2016, 07:28:17 pm »

Thank for pointing me in the right direction. I came up with a Lbl. It' isn't over yet, but it includes almost all the characters used

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Lbl ASCII
    A→D
    If A=4:28→D:End
    If A=6:193→D:End
    If A=7:93→D:End
    If A=8:123→D:End
    If A=9:125→D:End
    If A=11:20→D:End
    If A=16:40→D:End
    If A=17:41→D:End
    If A=41:32→D:End
    If A=42:34→D:End
    If A=43:44→D:End
    If A=44:215→D:End
    If A=45:33→D:End
    If A=58:46→D:End
    If A=62:58→D:End
    If A=106:61→D:End
    If A=107:60→D:End
    If A=108:62→D:End
    If A=109:23→D:End
    If A=110:25→D:End
    If A=111:24→D:End
    If A=112:43→D:End
    If A=113:45→D:End
    If A=130:42→D:End
    If A=131:47→D:End
    If A=174:39→D:End
    If A=175:63→D:End
    If A=176:26→D:End
    If A=240:94→D:End
    
    If A=187
        C++
        1→Z
        
        If {S+C}≥159 ? {S+C}≤164
            {S+C}+28→D
        End
        
        If {S+C}=165:194→D:End
        // Where is Mu? (166)
        If {S+C}=167:195→D:End
        If {S+C}=168:196→D:End
        If {S+C}=169:197→D:End
        If {S+C}=171:201→D:End
        If {S+C}=172:202→D:End
        
        If {S+C}≥176 ? {S+C}≤186
            {S+C}-79→D
        End
        
        If {S+C}≥188 ? {S+C}≤202
            {S+C}-80→D
        End
        
        If {S+C}=203:199→D:End
        If {S+C}=204:200→D:End
        If {S+C}=207:126→D:End
        If {S+C}=209:64→D:End
        If {S+C}=210:35→D:End
        If {S+C}=211:242→D:End
        If {S+C}=212:38→D:End
        If {S+C}=213:96→D:End
        If {S+C}=214:59→D:End
        If {S+C}=215:92→D:End
        If {S+C}=216:124→D:End
        If {S+C}=217:95→D:End
        If {S+C}=218:37→D:End
        If {S+C}=219:206→D:End
        If {S+C}=241:8→D:End
    End
    
    
    //Special unused codes, used by me
    If A=38:6→D:End
    
    
    D→A
Return

Xeda112358 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2016, 11:16:28 pm »

I think the following will work, though I can't test at the moment.

If S points to the BASIC string, L is the length, then the following code will return the token string in ASCII at E848E and the size of the ascii string in C. As well, it will update S and L to pint to the next token.

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Lbl TKSTR
Return!If L
L:Asm(444D78B1C8)
S:Asm(7EEFA342545D230B2002230B)->S
Asm(6069)->L
Asm(EBEF94456069)->C
Return

Author Topic: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string (Read 4499 times)

Giacomo Pigani

Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string

c4ooo

Re: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string

Xeda112358

Re: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string

Giacomo Pigani

Re: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string

Xeda112358

Re: Read lowercase letters from Ti-Basic string